“Let’s Thrive Together in 2021”

Thursday, February 4, 2021

11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

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Audience: Undergraduates, Graduates, PostDocs, Faculty, Staff and Community from ANY Zoom account (Confirmations will provide Zoom link for access).

Event’s Agenda

10:55 a.m.                          Live Access to Meeting

11:00 a.m.                          Welcome from Vice Chancellor Douglas Haynes

11:10 a.m.                           Keynote Presenter

Shirley Malcom, senior advisor and director of STEM Equity Achievement (SEA) Change, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Title of presentation –  SEA Change: Building a Thriving Community

11:45 a.m.                          A Focus on Wellness

Bernadette Boden-Albala, dean, Program in Public Health

12:10 p.m.                         A Community Dialogue on Thriving

Ramona Agrela, associate chancellor and chief human resources executive, Human Resources

Willie Banks, vice chancellor for the Division of Student Affairs

Diane O’Dowd, vice chancellor for the Office of Academic Personnel and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences

Marcelle Hayashida, associate vice chancellor of Wellness, Health and Community Services

Rodrigo Lazo, associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Graduate Division and professor of English in the School of Humanities

Brian Sato, associate dean in the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation and professor of teaching in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences

12:35 p.m.                         Reflections

Michelle Mallari, president of ASUCI

Connor Strobel, president of AGS

12:45 p.m.                       Call to Action

Dean Song Richardson, School of Law

Reports and Readings of Interest

• Minority Serving Institutions – America’s Underutilized Resource for Strengthening the STEM Workforce (2018)
• OIE Higher Ground report
• OIE UCI as a Hispanic-Thriving Campus report
• CEIUS Best Practices for Supporting Students in Immigration Crisis
• Task Force report on Ensuring Positive Climate for the Campus’ Black Community
• CORO Bridging to 2025 by Enhancing Current Staff Hiring and Retention
• 2018 Undocumented Report

Online Resourcs

• COVID-19
• AAAS SEA Change
• OIE
• Action Plan
• Black Thriving Initiative
• DECADE Mentors
• Equity Advisors
• Inclusive Excellence Certificate Program
• UCI Climate Survey 2021
• UCI Counseling Center

Campus Resources

• Academic Personnel
• ADVANCE Program
• AGS UCI
• ASUCI 
• Division of Career Pathways
• Division of Student Affairs
• Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
• Graduate Division
• Human Resources
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine project webpage on Sexual Harassment in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
• Office of Academic Personnel
• Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity
• Office of Institutional Research
• Program in Public Health
• Wellness, Health, and Counseling Services
• UCI Strategic Plan

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